The Crooked Valley

The company kind of has a point—we do need better labor laws. Just not the ones Silicon Valley is promoting.

The company recently filed a patent on using social network data to influence lending decisions. God help us all.

An open application to the university’s Impact Challenge.

Why test cars on fake roads when they'll need to operate on real ones?

This isn’t a matter of technology—a service economy by another name is still a service economy.

The way we work is changing, but not quickly enough for the boosters peddling these ideas.

Our machines are very smart. They’re also very incompetent.

The company has more practice than you might expect.

We treat platforms like they are public utilities. They’re not—but maybe they could be.

The secondary housing market in the Bay Area is blowing up, but collective living isn’t always “sharing.”

When tech workers are considered the true “creative class,” artists don’t appear to win.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has opened a new campaign office in a San Francisco tech incubator. He—and his philosophies on unregulated markets—will fit right in.

Media depictions of tech are rubbing some viewers the wrong way—but the entertainment industry is not the real problem.

High-interest loans are predatory whether you get them at a corner store or in an app.

Platforms that bill themselves as revolutionary are learning what that really means.

What do we stand to lose when we gain big convenient platforms?

Venture capital’s money and myths are producing more bloat than good.

Regardless of the legal outcome, her lawsuit against a venerable venture capital firm stands to change the way Silicon Valley is perceived both inside and out.

More workers are telecommuting than ever before, but tech is clinging to the campus life that made it so homogenous.